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To: Elsewhere who wrote (566)1/4/2004 6:23:58 PM
From: Raymond Duray  Read Replies (1) of 603
 
it was apparently safe and ready for three months' searching for signs of water

In the U.S. there was a rage for a party game called Trivial Pursuit. Looking for water on Mars seems to me to be a high-tech variant on that theme. It will be astonishing if NASA doesn't find signs of water. Space is loaded with the stuff. A more daunting task, and one that the PR people wisely backed away from was the search for amino acids and other precursors of life as we know it on Earth. Better to start with a rhetorical question. "Is there water on Mars?" DUH! We might as well ask if the Sun is hot.
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